Job 16

  1. Then Job answered and said, 🔗
  2. I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. 🔗
  3. Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 🔗
  4. I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul2019s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. 🔗
  5. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. 🔗
  6. Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? 🔗
  7. But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. 🔗
  8. And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. 🔗
  9. He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 🔗
  10. They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. 🔗
  11. God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. 🔗
  12. I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. 🔗
  13. His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. 🔗
  14. He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. 🔗
  15. I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. 🔗
  16. My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; 🔗
  17. Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. 🔗
  18. O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. 🔗
  19. Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. 🔗
  20. My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. 🔗
  21. O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! 🔗
  22. When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. 🔗

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